A Balanced Life
A Balanced Life by Patricia Schultheis is a lyrical memoir published by Amazon Digital Services LLC – Kdp on September 25, 2018. This 200-page book explores the author’s journey through the sport of skating, reflecting on her Catholic girlhood, the challenges of her young marriage during the upheavals of the sixties, and the role skating played in her life as a release from the demands of marriage, motherhood, and career.
Readers will find that Schultheis delves into the complexities of her experiences, particularly how a series of devastating losses, including her husband’s death, prompted her to return to the ice. The memoir examines the unpredictability of skating and its unexpected rewards, drawing parallels between the sport and the broader themes of resilience and grace in life. Through her personal narrative, Schultheis invites reflection on the richness and constraints of her journey, making this edition a thoughtful exploration of personal memoirs.
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Pursuing a sport without the requisite talent can be considered foolish; pursuing it over decades can be considered borderline madness.In this lyrical memoir, Patricia Schultheis uses skating to examine the richness and constraints of her Catholic girlhood, the impact of the upheavals of the sixties on her young marriage, and how skating provided a release from the demands of marriage, motherhood, and a career.When a series of devastating losses, including the death of her husband, knocked her off her feet, she wondered if she could get up again. But skating had been a constant in her life for so long, she returned to the ice and discovered that features of the sport its unpredictability, unexpected rewards, and many possibilities for grace mirror those of life itself.
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